I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

Do not read the newspapers.

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

We must look a long time before we can see

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.